Speaking on Monday Night Football. Carragher urged his close pal not to cry like former Liverpool team-mate Sami Hyypia did.

He said: “I think he’ll be looking forward to the game and will get a great send-off.

“His last game is the week after at Stoke, but for me this is his last game. It’s at Anfield, where he’s been his whole career.

“Nervous is the wrong word. He will be looking forward to it, but it will start to really sink in now that he’s not going to play there again.

“I just hope he doesn’t start crying and all that nonsense at the end or get emotional. Sami Hyypia did that.”

Two seasons ago Carragher was in the same position as Gerrard bidding farewell to Anfield, and on what will be an emotional afternoon at Anfield, Gerrard will get the send off that he deserves, the Liverpool Echo reports.

Carragher also said that Gerrard should not have been taken off at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, as Liverpool needed to go for the win. “It wasn’t so much Gerrard coming off, but more Lucas coming on. Stevie got the goal in the game and he can take penalties and free-kicks,” Carragher added.

“Brendan Rodgers said he wanted to take him off for the ovation, but I think the best thing about that was what he said after the game. That was probably the most entertaining part of it!

“I would have liked to have seen him stay on. If he was going to come off then maybe a more offensive player should have come off to try and get a goal?”